After an extended outage of the Methomyl Unit at the Bayer facility in Institute, West Virginia, the decision was made to commence a restart of the Unit even though the DCS upgrade was still incomplete and the newly replaced Residue Treater hadn&#39;t been fully recommissioned. An incident whose root cause was years in the making would ultimately cost two people their lives.With John Chidgey.Related Episodes:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://engineered.network/causality/episode-26-bhopal/">Causality Episode 26: Bhopal</a></li>
</ul>
Formal Reports:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.csb.gov/bayer-cropscience-pesticide-waste-tank-explosion/">Bayer CropScience Pesticide Waste Tank Explosion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.csb.gov/file.aspx?DocumentId=6089">CSB Final Report (PDF)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.csb.gov/csb-issues-report-on-2008-bayer-cropscience-explosion-finds-multiple-deficiencies-led-to-runaway-chemical-reaction-recommends-state-create-chemical-plant-oversight-regulation/">CSB Final Report News Release</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/20/breslandbayercombinedtestimony.pdf?13859">CSB Hearing Testimony (PDF)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/20/bayer_public_meeting_transcripts_4_23_2009.pdf?13856">Public Meeting Transcript</a></li>
</ul>
News Releases and Articles:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wvrecord.com/stories/510599244-lawsuit-links-student-s-death-to-08-bayer-explosion">Lawsuit links student&rsquo;s death to &lsquo;08 Bayer explosion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.chemanager-online.com/en/news/bayer-settles-2008-fatal-plant-explosion-lawsuit">Bayer Settles 2008 Fatal Plant Explosion Lawsuit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbgnetwork.org/english-coalition-against-bayer-dangers/newsletter-keycode-bayer-kcb/kcb-400-keycode-bayer-400/">Bayer cited, fined in fatal explosion at plant in August</a></li>
</ul>
General Information:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#Bayer_CropScience">Bayer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticide">Insecticide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovicide">Ovicide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://shop.wolterskluwer.com.au/items/10077937-0001S">Organising for Safety: How Structure Creates Culture</a></li>
</ul>
Support Causality on <a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/johnchidgey" title="Causality on Patreon"> Patreon</a>Episode Gold Producers:
 &#39;r&#39;, Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.Episode Silver Producers:
 Mitch Biegler, Shane O&#39;Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.

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